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Changelog</font>
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version 1.1:<br>
Little bugfix (the ' in the photos titles were "slashed". To upgrade, only upload index.php.<br>
Languages files added: italian, dutch and slovac. Thanks to their authors.<br>&nbsp;
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Requirements</font>
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Your server must run:<br>
MySQL<br>
PHP 4.x with the library GD 1.8 or latest, in order to create thumbnails. If not, you have to make them
yourself, and upload them in the sub folders <b>small</b> (see below).<br>&nbsp;
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First step</font>
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Start by select photos ( .jpg format) you want to show. Put them in folders,
et name these folders 1, 2, 3, etc. Each folder will be an album.<br>
Create in these folders a sub folder called <b>small</b>.<br>
You can create as much as folders/albums you want, and each of them must contains:
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<li><font face="verdana" color="black" size="2">A sub folder called <b>small</b></font>
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Second step</font>
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Edit and modify the file <b>conf.inc.php</b> with your datas.<br>
The variable <b>$lang</b> must be the name of a file in the folder <b>lang</b>.<br>
The variable <b>$page_title</b> will be the main title of your albums.<br>
The variable <b>$thumb_width</b> is ... the thumbnails width.<br>
Upload every files and folders on your server.<br>
Then upload your albums, put them in the folder <b>albums</b>.<br>
Set the permissions to 777 (CHMOD 777) for all folders 1, 2, 3, and the sub folders <b>small</b>.<br>
Last, create the tables <b>mcgallery</b> and <b>mcgallery_album</b> in your database, using the file <b>table.sql</b>
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Run</font>
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Browse to the page page <b>mcGallery/admin.php</b>. Fill the fileds with your login and password, and you are now on the settings area.<br><br>
Click on the <b>X</b> in the column <b>Create Thumbnails</b>, in order to have the same values in the columns <b>Photos</b> and <b>Thumbnails</b>.
 If your host server is not fast enough,  you can have an error message and some thumbnails are not created. Do the work again, the script take care of existing thumbnails and doesn't create them again.<br><br>
Click on the <b>X</b> in the column <b>Adjust Database</b>, in order to have the same values in the columns <b>Photos</b> and <b>Base</b>.<br><br>
Then give a name to the album and click on <b>OK</b><br><br>
Click on the <b>X</b> in the column <b>Detail</b>, If you wish, you can set a description for the album, and a title, an author and a description for each photo.<br><br>
Attention, on this page, remember to valid each photo before modifying another one.<br><br>
Last, go back to <b>admin</b>. If you want to set an unique author for the all photos in an album, click on the <b>X</b> in the column <b>Unique Author</b> and fill the field in the form.<br><br>
Repeat this for all the albums, then click on <b>Logout</b> to go to the index page.<br>
Hint: if you have only one album, this page <b>index.php</b> directly diplays this album. Else, an index table is shown on the left.
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And if I want ...</font>
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<b>Add a photo in an existing album</b><br>
Upload (by FTP) the photo in the folder, and go to the page <b>mcGallery/admin.php</b> in order to create thumbnail, update database, like before.<br>
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Copying</font>
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mcGallery is a free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the <a href="GNU_GPL.html">GNU General Public License</a>
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
any later version.<br>
mcGallery is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.<br>
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA</font><br>

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Copyright &copy; 2002 - <a href="http://www.phpforums.net" target="_blank">PhpForums</a> - <a href="mailto:marc@phpforums.net">marc cagninacci</a></font>
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